The
most complete and updated handbook on the ascertainment of authenticity
in art and antiques with 540 pages and more than 2,000 colour illustrations
in 3 volumes and 3 languages.

INTRODUCTION

This book aims to be your trusted expert, providing you with
clear and well-founded answers based on objective evaluation criteria as to
authenticity.
The
texts draw for the most part on the experience ofskilled art restorers and conservators collected in over 80 books on the
subject and published in Italian, German, English and French.

It
took a great many years of research and study to gather and set out this
material in a handbook which is the only one of its kind.

This
treasure trove has been further enriched with information concerning scientific
methods and procedures.

These
texts were published in 1997-2003 when the

Museum of Artand
Science was still called the Art Collectors� Museum (18 rooms and over 2,000
items on display).

www.LeonardoDaVinciMilano.com -
Two permanent exhibitions: "Leonardo Citizen of
Milan" and "Appreciating Art through the Eyes of Leonardo" from his "Treatise
on Painting".

www.AuthenticAfricanBronzesandCeramics.com
-
Dedicated to the authenticity of African artworks in bronze, stone and
pottery. The scientific laboratory of the Museo d�Arte e Scienza
has developed valid methods for telling authentic African objects from
copies and fakes.

www.Excavatedartauthenticity.com
- "A list of all the
possible ways of determining, on the basis of objective factors, the
authenticity of excavated pottery, glass or bronze items from Southern Italy,
the Mediterranean Basin, China and South America".

www.SpectroscopyforArt.com -
A scientific method for the dating of the wood and identification of the wood
type used for art objects. Determination of their authenticity through
analysis of colours, binders, pigments and other organic substances.

www.Matthaes.org -
The history of
the G. Matthaes Foundation from the opening of the painting school

in Dresden in 1906 up to the "Museo d'Arte e Scienza" in Milan.

www.CopiesAndFakesInArt.com
-
Ample further descriptions for ascertaining the authenticity in art
for the individual fields of antiques.

www.AmiciMuseoArteScienza.org
- An association of the Museum founded in 2010 to patronize and promote
the restoration and preservation of works of art and the development of
appropriate scientific methods for determining their authenticity.

www.arteautentica.it
- The Museum's scientific laboratory is in charge of the investigation
of the authenticity in art and antiques and is available to individuals,
collectors, art experts, restorers and museums.